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Ha, painting tablet app feels like a rite of passage for programmer parents. Here's mine from that era https://paints.netlify.app/

Where it got really interesting later was when one of my kids asked how I made it, how it worked, how they could add new features. So it grew a bunch of adorable haphazard hacks that my oldest implemented.

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Very cute! I started out with basically this, and my kids kept asking me for more and more features :-). Recently they asked to make animations, and that took a chunk of time to get right. I'm looking forward to whatever they ask for as they grow more advanced!

Your kids sound high maintenance; I would consider returning them if they're still within the warranty period.

By the time they start giving you attitude, they're well past the warranty period.

Ha, guilty (https://safari-sketch.com)! Was also annoyed by an iPad game my son played that tried to extract money out of him every play session. It served as a nice excuse to learn some technologies I wouldn't otherwise play with.

The victory confetti is a nice touch, ha.

Wonderful, the fact that it runs as expected in multi touch devices has not gone unnoticed!

That’s really essential, even if only for the clumsy thumb left on the screen with a naive grip. Being able to finger paint with all ten fingers is a bonus.

Yes, ignoring the palm resting on the screen is essential. Doing that along with allowing zooming and pen input takes some creative thinking. It’s non trivial

> Ha, painting tablet app feels like a rite of passage for programmer parents.

Only the first parents should have had to make it. The fact that one of these good home grown ones is not at the top of any search engine is a failure of the internet.

search engines are dead to be honest

web directories must make a return.

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